Jill Clayburgh Quotes

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Jill Clayburgh

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• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Need
  • Back
  • Drop

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Success

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Manufacturing
  • Mining

• Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Home

• As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Grow

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Interesting
  • Europe
  • Fathers

• What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Feeling
  • Health

• If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Importance

• It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

  

  Susan Vreeland
  • Moments
  • Wonder
  • Strange

• I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

  

  Jill Clayburgh